THE GIRDLE OF VENUS

= nearly always DOES indicate an intense state of nervousness, and in a
large magority of cases great liablitiy to hysteria.

COURSE
Rises between the fingers of Jupiter and Saturn and runs across the Mounts of
Saturn and Apollo, ending between the fingers of Apollo and Mercury.
The Girdle of Venus does not always run exactly over this path, but sometimes
rises on the Mount of Jupiter and runs over onto the Mount of Mercury,
sometimes ending on the percussion.

It is, in part, as sister line to the
Heart line, and in some hands, when the Heart line is absent, takes the place
of that line. Older palmists conceived the idea that when they saw this line
in a land which had also a stong Heart line, that being virtually a sister
line to the Heart line, it indicated a double supply of heart qualities. This
was not meant in a physical snese, but as regard the affections, and for
this reason the line was named by them the Girdle of Venus, meaning the
Girdle of Love. As this reading of the line was first made in thee days when
love meant license, the interpretation was attached to it that anyone with
such a abundant supply of affections would seek occasion to lavish them, and
the Firdle of Venus vecame the synonym of license, profligacy, debauchery,
and was considered the mark of unchastity and abandonment.
Some few have
doubted its accuracy, and many practitioners have abandoned its use
entirely, because they could not reconcile its accepted interpretation to the
lives of the subjects they encountered, and many embarassing errors were
occasioned by the use of the line. To arrive at a correct solution of this
much vexed question, we have only to apply our general hypothesis, and to
ADAPT THE LINE TO THE SUBJECT, no the subject to the line. Also to remember
that this is the twentieth century, instead of 400 B.C., when the original
reading was given, and that conditions today are different from those
prevailing at that time. Form an exhaustive study of the Girdle of Venus, I
have found that it does not as a rule indicate dabauchery and license, but
that it nearly always DOES indicate an intense state of nervousness, and in a
large magority of cases great liablitiy to hysteria. In a large percentage of
hands in which this Girdle of Venus is found, the palm will be crossed by
innumerable lines running in every direction. This by itself is sufficient
ground for pronouncing the subject intensely nervous, but with the addition
of a Girdle of Venus there is an increased degree of nervous excitabitily.
In seeking the rational of the line remember that the vital Current enters
through the finger of Jupiter, runs down the Life line, goes to the brain,
and, returning, transfers itself to the lines of Saturn, Apollo, and Mercury,
which are its natural channels of egress from the body. When this course is
pursued without interruption, the action of the fluid is normal. But the
Girdle of Venus being an abnormal line, by virtue of its location, deflects
part of the current form its usual course immediately upon its entrance into
us, and the balance of the Current seeking egress form the body through the
lines of Sautrn, Apollo, and Mercury on its return from the brain fows
AGIANST the BARRIER FORMED BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS, and cannot easily flow
out though the finger ends, but, being obstructed by the Girdle, OVERFLOWS
into the palm of the hand. As the ENTIRE Current is seeking egress though
the fingers of Sautrn, Apollo and Mercury the entire Cuttent is thus
obstructed or deflectee gby the girdle and overflows, cutting new chnnels for
itself, in may directions, and thus producing the multiplicity of lines that
we see. The large amound of vital Current thus turned loose to zigzag its
way out of the hand, as best it can acts upon every nerve, electrifies it,
intesifies its action, and from this excitation of the nerves we have the
production of a highly nervous person. Thus as a first result of a Girdle
of Venus we often have intense nervous activity.

APPLYING THIS INFORMATION TO THE PERSON
In the greater number of instances the Girdle of Venus is found in the hands
of women.
Delicate, nervous, finely constituted + Girdle = nervousness produced by the
Girdle will be greater than if he be phlegmatic(sluggish,dull) and heavy in
construction.
In the first case the nervous force
will electrify his organization to a great degree. Such a person will suffer
from any slight or inattention, will be easily depressed, even when people
have the best intentions. He will soon come to think that he has no place in
the world, and that no one cares for him. This brooding once begun, grows
instead of decreses, until every act of even his best friends is distorted,
every grief is magnified, pain is imagined where there is none, and we have a
fully developed case of hysteria.
On a hand with few lines and a phlegmatic
temperament, the Girdle of Venus is never of so great importance as an
indication of HYSTERIA and GREAT NERVOUSNESS as in the highly strung subject,
but it may turn to the other horn of the delemma, and if the hand be coarse
or sensual, have a swollen Mount of Venus, and be red and animal in its
general make-up there will likely be present the lasciviousness (expressing
lust) which has always been the accepted reading of the line.
It is from the type and
Chirognomic make-up of a subject that you must determine which interpretation
should be given. In every case the Girdle will indicate SOME degree of
nervousness and some degree of ardor(emotional warmth), but to reach a
correct estimate of the extent of either, your subject must first be
correctly estimated, and then the line APPLIED to him.
If the Mount of Venus be flat and flabby, the Life
line running close to the thumb, the color white, the third phalanges of the
fingers waist-like, and the Heart line thin, a Girdle of Venus will not
indicate lasciviousness, for the physical make-up and conditions of the
subject preclude the possibility of such a thing. This subject will, however,
undoubtedly be a prey to intense nervousness and dejection, and hysteria has
a fertile soil in which to develop.
On the other hand, if with a Girdle of
Venus the Mount of Venus be large, swollen, and grilled, the third phalanges
of the fingers thick, the first phalanges, short, the Life line running wide
into the palm, Heart line deep and red, the Mounts of Mars full, and the
color of the hand red, with black or any approach to auburn or red hair on
the hands, it should never be read as inidicating nervousness and hysteria,
but as the greatest lasviousness possible, added to a taste for drink and
general debauchery. A girdle of Venus on such a hand must be given the full
strength of its old
traditional interpretation. All of the nervousness in such a subject will
become nervous energy which will be expended in gratifying animal appetites.
There is another danger from the Firdle of Venus, which comes to all types of
hands which havee it. This may only be a transitory danger, or it may result
in the formation of a permanent habit it not checked early in life. At the
age of pubertyy, hen the youth passes from the child to the adult, subjects
with the Girdle of Venus are liable to indulge in self abuse. If the subject
with animal hands this arises from the heat of his passionate nature, which
fins its oultet in this way. But with such subjects the danger of a
continueacne of the habit is only slight, for they quickly have relations
with the opposite sex, and do not continue self-abuse. In the very nervous
hand puberty brings a sense of desire, but in such weak physical nautres this
is largely a MENTAL condition. There is no real heat or warmth of physical
passion, but the mind becomes inflamed and has lascivious dreams. Such
subjects are full of imagination but weak in physical heat. It gives them
greater delight to think of intercouse thatn the actual experience would
bring them. With such subjects, when the age of puberty gives them a
knowledge of desire, they easily fall victims to the habit of self abuse.
If the lower third of the Mount of Moon be larely developed, with a thin,
bony hand, flat Mount of Venus, Girdle of Venus, waisted third phalanges of
the fingers, deficient Mounts of Mars, and thin Heart laine, the subject will
because of his imaginings, commit the act of self abuse. These subject are
hard to break of the habit, for theeir lack of real physical heat makes them
prefer selfabuse to actual intercourse. They are shy, diffident, and retiring
by nature, and neither court nor love the society of people in general, or of
the oppositie sex in particular. Many such subjects are found in the
Saturnian type.

NUMBER OF LINES
The Girdle of Venus is usually a single deep line. This is most often seen on
the least nervous hands, and is for this reason not so frequently an
indication of hysteria as of increase of animal appetities. Often the Girdle
is composed of broken fragments. This will increase the nervousness, the
danger of hysteria, and also the retiring disposition. If such subjects fall
into bad practices, the habits are very hard to overcome.

If the girdle of Venus be composed of double or tiple lines, which is often
the case, it will ,ake its inidcation, whether of health or temperament,
doubly strong.
If the girdle be composed of a number of broken lines and the rest of the
hand be a nervous one, the danger from hysteria is great and all nervous
symptoms will be intensified. If with such a marking there are indications of
female trouble the subject will be a geat sufferer, and nervous depression,
ill-health, kand constant discontent and unhapiness will surround her. There
subjects should be taken tp a specialist, who may relieve them, but often the
real trouble is not known. With such a marking you will frequently find very
defective Life and Head lines. If the Head line in this case should have
islands, dots, crosses, or a star on it, there will be grave danger of
insanity. The ultranervous condition shown by a bad Girdle of Venus will have
its effect upon every phase of life. Defects in the Saturn or Apollo lines
may be accounted for by a bad Girdle of Venus. They may come from either
lasciviousness or ill-health; which one may be indicated by a Chironomic
examination and by the Main lines. With the Girdle of Venus, a factor which
may be so potent in its operation, there will be many combinations in which
it will play an important part. It the Head line slopes low into the Mount of
Moon, and on it or near its termination a star, dot, cross, or island be seen,
with a broken Girdle of Venus, and many lines in the hand, the subject is in
grave danger of insanity, as a result of intese nervousness and excessive
imagination. This subject wsill be erratice, cranky and hard to get along
with. It a cross be seen on the Mount of Sautrn, a brken Gridle of Venus,
dots or islands in the head line UNDER Saturn, a grille on the Mount of the
Moon, with brittle or fluted nails, the subject will be in grave danger from
paralysis. If the hand be thick at the base, fingers thick, color red, lines
deep and red, with a deep Girlde of Venus, and the lines of Life and Head
short and ending in defects, the subject will be likely to die very suddenly
at the age at which the LIfe line end, as a result of dissipation and excess.
If thej hand be sensual in formation, with a Girdle of VEnus which cuts a
troubled Sautrn line deeply, and a dot be seen on the Mount of Apollo, or on
the Apollo line near the termination, the excesses of the subject will ruin
his career and end in the entrie loss of his reputation. It will be noted in
the foregoing illustrations that the Chirognomic type of the hand is taken
into account, and that a BROKEN Girdle of Venus indicates the NERVOUS
condition and a deep Girle indicateds its excessive side. If a deep Grile of
VEnus cuts a line of Affection, the Heart line has drooping lines from it,
the ehad line becomes defective toward the end and terminates in a star, and
the SAturn line is cut by a bar which stops it, the excesses of the subject
will ruin his married life and cuase great sorrow, finally ending in an
impairment of the mental faculties. insanity, and the ruining of his career.
You will meet the Girdle of Venus in all kinds of hands. Some of the best men
and women have had it, and their career have never suffered. Itr has been
argued that the added warmth imparted by the Girdle of Venus gives a greater
rishness to the character that can hold it within bounds. From this
standpoint it would be condied as an absolute blessing. But its presence may
procue unpleasant results and in many ways. The difficulty of telling which
meaning to give the Girdle is made easy when you fit the line to the type of
hand which has it, and do nto gry to fit lasciviousness to every person on
whom the Gjirdle is sen. A poor, tembling, nervous, cold-handed subject with
a Girdle of Venus should not be told that he indulges in great excesses, for
to such a person an extra cup of coffee or tea would mean great dissipation,
and yet it is on such subjec ts that you will find a large percentage of
Girdles.

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